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Tag Archives: Winterbourne View
The Winterbourne View: Time for Change Report (BBC News / ACEVO / NHS England)
Summary The government may be failing many people with learning disabilities, by sending them to hospitals too far from home for too long, according to the “Winterbourne View: Time for Change” report, commissioned by NHS England. Full Text Link Reference … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged ACEVO (Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations), ACEVO Transforming Care and Commissioning Steering Group, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Alternatives to Hospital-Based Treatments, Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Mortality, BBC Health News, Bradley Report Five Years On, Building Capacity in the Community, Care Closer to Home, Challenging Behaviour Foundation, Challenging Behaviour Foundation (CBF), Challenging Behaviour National Strategy Group, Challenging Behaviour National Strategy Group Charter, Charter of Rights for People With Learning Disabilities, Chemical Restraint, Closure Programme for "Inappropriate" In-Patient Facilities, Closures of Inpatient Institutions, Co-Commissioning with Charities and Social Enterprises, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Complementary Approaches to Reform, Direct Payments, Dr Margaret Flynn: Author of Winterbourne View Serious Case Review, Education and Training, Health and Social Care Reform, Health Care Reform, Health Education England, Inappropriate Use of Restraint Seclusion and Anti-Psychotics, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Jan Tregelles: Chief Executive of Mencap, Learning Disabilities, Life in the Community Social Investment Fund, Mandatory Commissioning Framework, Mencap, National Workforce Academy, NHS Reform, NHS Workforce, Patients’ Right to Challenge, Payment for Outcomes Fund, People With Learning Disabilities, Personal Budgets, Personal Health Budgets, Residential Services for People With Learning Disabilities, Restraint in Health and Adult Social Care, Right to Challenge, Seclusion (Supervised Confinement), Sir Stephen Bubb: Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), Skills for Care, Skills for Health, Social Care Reform, Social Investment Fund for Community-Based Services, Social Investment Fund: Life in the Community, Social Property Fund, Specialised Housing, Staff Training, Supported Housing for People With Learning Disabilities, Third Sector, Third Sector Commissioning, Training and Capacity-Building, Training and Support, Training for Carers, Transforming Care and Commissioning Steering Group, Vivien Cooper: Chief Executive of Challenging Behaviour Foundation, Winterbourne Joint Improvement Programme, Winterbourne View, Winterbourne View Concordat, Winterbourne View Hospital, Winterbourne View: Time for Change Report, Workforce Competencies, Workforce Development, Workforce Planning and Development, Workforce Training
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The Financial and Human Costs of Mistakes (BBC News / Frontier Economics / CQC / NHS England / NHS IQ / BMJ Quality and Safety / Department of Health / BMC Family Practice)
Summary The NHS in England is being urged to reduce mistakes by half, as mistakes in hospitals cost the NHS around £2.5bn per year. Four aspects of poor patient safety include falls, bed ulcers, urinary infections caused by poorly fitted … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), Adverse Events, AHSNs, Australia, Australia's Safety Alert Broadcasting Systems, Avoidable Harm, Avoiding Litigation, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, BBC Health News, BBC Shared Data Unit, Bed Sores, Bed Ulcers, Behavioural Insights Team, Berwick Review, Berwick Review of Patient Safety, Birmingham Children’s Hospital (BCH), Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Blood Clots, BMC Family Practice, BMJ Quality and Safety, Bradford, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Capping Lawyers' Payments (Negligence Claims), Care Quality Commission (CQC), Centre for Clinical Governance Research: University of New South Wales, Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, Costs of NHS Mistakes (Statistics), Costs of Unsafe Care in NHS, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, CQC Hospital Inspections, Decubitus Ulcers, Dr Chris Streather: Managing Director of Health Innovation Network (AHSN for South London), Dr Liz Mear: Chief Executive, Dr Mike Durkin: NHS England’s Director of Patient Safety, DVT, Effectiveness, Ensuring Correct Personal Information, Falls Prevention, Financial Incentives, Financial Penalties, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Francis Inquiry, Frontier Economics Ltd, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Haelo (Innovation and Improvement Centre), Harm Free Care, Harm Free Care Website (Run by Haelo Team), HC 691, Healthbus, Healthcare Quality Improvement, Hospital Aquired VTE, Hospital Discharge, IHI Outpatient Adverse Event Trigger Tool, Improving Patient Safety, Incentives, Infection Prevention, Institute of Psychological Sciences, Institute of Psychological Sciences: University of Leeds, Leeds, Legal Costs: Negligence Claims, Litigation Claims, Local Area Teams (LATs), Local Patient Safety Collaboratives, Medical Negligence Claims, Medicines Safety, National Audit Office (NAO), National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS), Negligence Claims Against the NHS, Never Events, Never Events Policy Framework, Never Events Policy Framework Review, Never Events Policy Framework Review Consultation, NHS Area Teams (ATs), NHS England's Sign Up to Safety Campaign, NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), NHS IQ, NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA), NHS Resolution, NHS Safety Thermometer, NHS Standard Contract, NIHR Greater Manchester Primary Care Patient Safety Translational Research Centre: University of Manchester, North West Coast AHSN, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, NRLS Harm Definitions, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), Patient Safety, Patient Safety Collaboratives, Patient Safety Collaboratives Programme, Patient Safety Thermometer, Pay-Outs by NHS Litigation Authority, Payments in Respect of Negligence Claims Against the NHS, Performance Incentives, Positive and Negative Deviance, Positive Behaviours, Positive Deviance, Pressure Sores, Pressure Ulcer Avoidance, Pressure Ulcers, Pressure Ulcers: Prevention, Preventable Adverse Events, Productivity, Professor Don Berwick, Promise to Learn: Berwick Report, Prospective and Proactive Thinking, Quality Improvement Methodologies, Raising Concerns, Raising Questions, Reducing Clinical Negligence Claims, Reducing Litigation Costs, Reduction in Bureaucracy, Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Safety Alert Broadcasting Systems (Australia), Safety Initiatives, Safety Standards in Hospitals, Safety Standards in Hospitals in England, Safety Thermometer, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, School of Community Health Sciences: University of Nottingham Medical School, Serious Incident Framework, Service Redesign for Productivity, Severe Pressure Ulcers, Sign up to Safety, Sign Up to Safety Campaign, Sign Up to Safety Pledges, STEIS, Strategic Executive Information System (StEIS), Suzette Woodward: Sign Up to Safety, Tools for Primary Care Patient Safety, UK NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement Primary Care Trigger Tool, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, University of New South Wales, University of Nottingham, University of Nottingham Medical School, Unsafe Care in NHS, Urinary Catheters, Urinary Infections, Urinary Tract Infections, Urinary Tract Infections (in Patients with Catheters), Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), Venous Thromboembolisms (VTEs), VTE (Venous Thromboembolism), Winterbourne View, Zero Harm
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Consultation on the Protection of Personal Health and Care Data (Department of Health)
Summary The Department of Health has published a consultation document on proposals to strengthen controls and safeguards on the use of health and care data. The aim is to reassure people that their personal data will not be not open … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Accredited Safe Havens, Accredited Safe Havens (ASHs), Advisory Group for the care.data Programme, Anonymised Patient Medical Records, Anonymising Data, ASH: Accredited Safe Haven, Caldicott Principles, Caldicott Review of Information Governance, Caldicott Standards, care.data, care.data Advisory Group, Care.data: Modern Data Service for the NHS, Case Management, Commissioning Organisations, Confidentiality, Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG), Controlling the Release of Data, Dame Fiona Caldicott: Chair of the Independent Information Governance Oversight Panel (IIGOP), Data Extraction, Data Protection Act, Data Release Review (PwC), Data Sharing Review, Department of Health Arm’s Length Bodies, Department of Health's Information Strategy, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Electronic Medical Records, Fair Processing, Francis Inquiry Report, Future Forum, General Practice Extraction Service (GPES), General Practice [Data] Extraction Service, Government’s Information Strategy, Government’s Life Sciences Strategy, Health and Care Data, Health and Social Care Information Centre, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Information Governance Review, Information Governance Reviews, Information Governance Toolkit Controls, Information Sharing, Information Strategy, Legal Basis for Data Extraction, Local Authorities, Modern Medicine, NHS Constitution, NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (IC), Opt Out Procedures, Opting Out, Opting Out (care.data), Patient Confidentiality, Patient Identifiable Data, Patient Representative Groups, Personal Confidential Data, Protection of Personal Health and Care Data, Pseudonymised Data, Public Confidence, Register of Approved Data Releases, Secondary Uses Service (SUS), Secure Safe Havens, Winterbourne View
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Government Response to the House of Lords Select Committee Report on the Mental Capacity Act (Ministry of Justice / Department of Health / JCN)
Summary The government, with partners, has considered the recommendations made by the House of Lords. This response report defines a system-wide programme planned for 2014 to 2015 (and beyond) on improving implementation of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Full Text … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Guidelines, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Abuse of Vulnerable Adults, Access to Court, Adult Safeguarding, Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment (ADRT), Assessment of Needs, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Association of Public Authority Deputies (APAD), Awareness and Understanding, Best Interest Assessor (BIA), Best Interests, Care Act 2014, Care and Support Planning, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Challenge on Dementia (David Cameron), Civil Legal Aid (Financial Resources and Payment for Services) Regulations 2013, Closing the Gap, Closing the Gap: Priorities for Essential Change in Mental Health, Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, Core Principles (Mental Capacity Act 2005), Court of Protection, Criminal Law, Dementia Awareness, Dementia Friendly Communities Champion Group, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), Elderly Human Rights, Empowerment, England and Wales Court of Appeal, English Local Authorities, European Convention on Human Rights, Five Principles of the Mental Capacity Act, Hard Truths, House of Lords, House of Lords Select Committee on the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Human Rights, Human Rights Culture, Human Rights in Care Homes, Implications of the Francis Inquiry Report, Independent Advocacy, Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA), Independent Mental Capacity Advocates (IMCAs), Information and Advice, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA), Lasting Powers of Attorney, Least Restrictive Option, Least Restrictive Practice, Legal Aid, Legal Aid: Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO), Local Authorities, Local Government Association: LGA, MCA: Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mediation, Mental Capacity Act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Capacity Act Steering Group, Mental Capacity Act Training, Mental Capacity Act: Government Response to the House of Lords Select Committee Report, Mental Capacity Advisory Board, Mental Capacity Assessments, Mental Health Act 2007, Ministry of Justice, National Governance, Neglect, Norman Lamb (Former Care Minister), Norman Lamb MP (Former Minister of State for Care and Support), Office of the Public Guardian, Office of the Public Guardian (OPG), OPG: Office of the Public Guardian, Oversight and Monitoring, Parliament, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), Post‐Diagnosis Support, Post‐Diagnosis Support Working Group, Prevention of Abuse and Neglect in the Institutional Care of Older Adults, Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia, Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, Professional Training and Awareness, Protecting Adults from Abuse or Neglect, Protecting Vulnerable People, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Reactions to the Francis Inquiry Report, Relevant Person‘s Representative (RPR), Responses to the Francis Inquiry Report, Restriction, Restrictive Practices, Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Safeguarding Adults in Care Homes, Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults (SOVA), Select Committee on the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Simon Hughes MP, Simon Hughes MP: Minister of State for Justice and Civil Liberties, Simon Hughes: Ministry of Justice, Transforming Care, Transparency, UK Government Dementia Awareness Campaign, UK Parliament, Unannounced Hospital Inspections, United Nation Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with a Disability, Universal Declaration of Human Rights UDHR (United Nations 1948), Unwise Decisions, Valuing Every Voice Respecting Every Right, Vulnerable Adults, Vulnerable Older People, Winterbourne View
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Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards: Practice Guidelines (SCIE Report 66)
Summary This SCIE report covers good practice in the management and implementation of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS). It is concerned with how to protect the human rights of vulnerable people, whether in hospitals or care homes, and also covers the … Continue reading
Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Mental Health, National, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Wales
Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Adult Safeguarding, Assessors and Authorisers (DoLS), Bournewood Judgement, Care Homes, Care in General Hospitals, CCG Legal Duty, CCGs, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), DoLS in Hospitals, English Local Authorities, General Hospitals, Guide for Local Authorities, IMCAs and Safeguarding, Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) Service, Local Authorities, Local Authority and Social Care, Local Authority Scrutiny Functions, Mental Capacity, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Capacity Assessments, Mental Health Assessments, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, No Contact, Nursing Homes, Protecting Vulnerable People, Residential Care Homes, Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults Boards, Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults (SOVA), Safeguarding Older People, Safeguarding Teams, SCIE Report 66: Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Scrutiny, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Supervision, Supervisory Bodies, Vulnerable Adults, Vulnerable Older People, Winterbourne View
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Driving Up Quality Code (Driving Up Quality Alliance)
Summary The Driving Up Quality Alliance have developed a code committing to quality improvements, largely as a response to the Winterbourne View care home failings. Health and social care providers and commissioners are being encouraged to sign-up to this code. … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), National, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK
Tagged Adult Safeguarding, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Adults with Learning Disability Services Forum, ARC, Association for Real Change, Care Homes, Dementia Care in Care Homes, Driving Up Quality Alliance, Driving Up Quality Code, English Community Care Association, English Community Care Association (ECCA), Housing and Support Alliance, Independent Healthcare Advisory Services, Local Service Providers, National Care Association, National Care Forum, National Care Forum (NCF), Residential Care Homes, Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Shared Lives Plus, Sitra, Social Care Provider Representative Bodies, Social Care Providers, Swanton Care, VODG, Voluntary Organisations Disability Group, Winterbourne View, Winterbourne View Serious Case Review
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